The Digital Media Intern will support a major restructuring of the Vicksburg National Military Park’s website. The intern will work with the park team and scholars to review and overhaul the existing website.

The National Park Service (NPS) uses a Content Management System platform that does not require html or coding knowledge. The intern will be trained in the CMS system. Interest in public history and strong writing ability are important. Work will include restructuring layout, preparing, and uploading images, authoring pages, and coordinating work by other team members. Major goals of the project include improving the virtual experience, developing more visually engaging pages, integrating into the site new research about under told stories including the experiences of African Americans, Native Americans, women, families, and civilians. The park has major research projects underway that are exploring these under told stories.

The position will help promote relevancy, diversity, and inclusion by supporting efforts by the park to tell the relevant stories of Vicksburg. In addition to exploring the relevancy of the Campaign and Siege of Vicksburg, the park is expanding storytelling and programming related to the lives of civilians including women, children, and families, the role of African Americans in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the ongoing quest for Civil Rights rooted in the stories of Vicksburg. This project will allow the park to more fully tell stories of race, sacrifice, inequality, and justice.

This position is part of the Internship Program administered by the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE). The program is a partnership between the National Park Service and NCPE. Eligibility requirements apply; visit https://preservenet.org/ncpe-internships/ for details and instructions on how to apply.

Qualified NCPE interns who successfully complete their internships may count their position towards earning a Public Land Corps (PLC) Non-Competitive Hiring Authority certificate.  Once earned, the PLC hiring authority certificate may be used to apply for eligible Federal temporary, term, or permanent positions. Visit the website listed above for details about this benefit. Successful completion of the internship does not guarantee Federal employment.